
The Wandering Village is an exceptional Strategy/Simulation that raises the bar for the genre.
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92%
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IGDB
Verdict score based on confidence-adjusted Steam reviews?
Very Positive on Steam (92% positive from 8.1K reviews)
Still in Early Access — content may be incomplete
The Wandering Village is a city-building game developed by Stray Fawn Studio, based in Zurich. The game was in development for six years and entered early access on Steam, where it remained for nearly three years. It was released on 17 July 2025, for Windows, macOS, Linux, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.

Runs well on modern hardware.
Last updated 4d ago
One day, a group of developers watched Nausica and they went "Yoooo ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥" And thus, this game was born.
Great cozy game. Progression feels good, the city building and resource management isn't too complicated. Definitely worth the money. My only complaint is there isn't much replay value. Wish there were some modifiers on your Onbu, things like amount of grass/mud/stone, so maybe you have to do a run with mostly mushrooms, or you have a run with a poison island you can't reach, maybe your onbu has a canyon across it's back, things like that. Would be a great way to incorporate the skins and add replay value. Still a great game, and would highly recommend.
Beatiful city builder, love the Ghibli-like art and the beatiful story also fit for studio Ghibli, Also love the challenge of a limited area which can give you problems later in the game Don't really have any negatives but some improvements would be the ability to upgrade your herb and mushroom farms to have more farmhands since herbs espicially are important Also wish you could have a building to have workers go around and harvest berries automatically instead of me having to click on all the scattered bushes individually
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